Chelsea Johnson, 15, was found stabbed to death in a Fairfield creek bed in 2012.

“As you talk about her she's not gone as long as you keep her in your heart. She's not gone. She'll always be with us,” Chelsea’s grandfather, Phil Johnson said.

Johnson’s family hopes a break in the case will come soon.

Police have interviewed George Davis II after he admitted texting Johnson and offering her heroin in exchange for sex. He has never been named as a suspect in the case.

“She's always in my head,” Vicky Fible, Chelsea’s mother, said.

Johnson’s family said it will only have closure when someone is held responsible for Chelsea’s murder.

“We're never (going to) get over this period. I mean that's a given, but we can't even start to get closure as long as the animals that perpetrated this on my granddaughter are walking free,” Phil Johnson said.

“I cry every day. My wife cries every day to and from work. She cries at work. I thought after a year, it maybe would be getting a little easier but it’s not. You never get over something like this but time does heal. Right now, it’s just like it was yesterday,” Phil Johnson said.

The Johnsons said a new detective took over Chelsea’s case a few months ago and she is making progress. But investigators wouldn’t offer any new information about the case.

“We were having a hard time, struggling with it until they put Det. Sears on the case. She has made so much progress in this case and it’s renewed my faith in the judicial system,” Phil Johnson said.

Sears has been giving the Johnsons weekly updates on the case.

“I know it’s been a year but the more we keep saying that you've got to be feeling guilty, someone out there -- it's got to be eating them alive, you know,” Fible said.

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